Al-Hilal Club (Omdurman)
Al Hilal Educational Club (Arabic: نادي الهلال للتربية), known as Al-Hilal Club or simply Al-Hilal EC for a short, is a Sudanese football club based in Omdurman.
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| Full name | Al Hilal Educational Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Seed al-balad (The Leader of the Country) Al-Mawj Al-Azraq (Tha Blue Wave) Hilal Al-Malaein | ||
| Founded | 13 February 1930 | ||
| Ground | Al-Hilal Stadium, Omdurman, Khartoum State, Sudan | ||
| Capacity | 25,000 | ||
| Chairman | Hosham Hassan | ||
| Manager | Zoran Manojlović | ||
| League | Sudan Premier League | ||
| 2019-20 | 2nd | ||
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Name and history
The name Hilāl is the Arabic word for crescent – a name chosen on a night when the crescent of the moon was visible in Omdurman. Also it is the first club in the world to be named (AL- HILAL).
Idea
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, on the heels of a failed uprising by pro Egyptian elements antagonistic to the Anglo part of the then Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the British colonial authorities banned many activities and organizations that could potentially disrupt their hold on the region. The only organized activities permitted were sports clubs and Scouting.
In 1930, four graduates from Gordon Memorial College (now the University of Khartoum) – Hamdnaallah Ahmed, Yousif Mustafa Al-Tinay, Yousif Al-Mamoun, and Babiker Mukhtar Tatay – decided to establish a sports club as an outlet for their and others' youthful energies. On 13 February 1930, a dozen of yet-to-be the founding fathers of Al-Hilal, mostly graduates from Khartoum Memorial College, met in the house of Hamdnaallah Ahmed in Al-shohada Omdurman, to discuss the details of the new sports club.
At that time, sports clubs were named after neighbourhoods, cities and famous figures. Examples included Team Bori (after a Khartoum neighbourhood), Team Abbas (after a famous person) and Hay Alisbtaliya (after an Omdurmanian neighbourhood). The meeting concluded that the new club should have an inclusive name, and not be named after a specific neighbourhood or person.
The story goes that the club founders had been unable to agree upon a name for the proposed club when the meeting was temporarily adjourned at dusk for the evening prayers at a nearby mosque. After prayers and en route back to the meeting house, one of the founders, Adam Rajab, is said to have looked up at the night sky, saw a crescent ("Hilal" in Arabic), and remarking that it was the crescent of the Muslim lunar month of Rajab, asked the others "why not we name it Al-Hilal?". Everyone welcomed the idea, and on 4 March 1930 Al-Hilal became the official name of the club and the first to hold this name in Sudan and the Middle East.
The uniform chosen was dark blue and white – after the white crescent against the dark blue night skies. In light of the aforementioned pro-Egyptian uprising, however, the British colonial authorities initially refused to permit formation of a team whose symbol, a crescent, was reminiscent of the crescent prominently featured on the Egyptian flag of that time. Only after repeated reassurances that the team was simply an athletic outlet for apolitical college students, and that its symbol had no political overtones, did the British authorities relent and allow the team to form.
1930 Squad and Officers
The first squad included many of the founders that were present at the establishing meeting. The following list includes the founding fathers of Al-Hilal and their roles.
First Administration
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Hamdnaallah Ahmed
First Squad (1930)
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Other Founders
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(F) = denotes Founder
Presidential history
Babiker Ahmed Gabani (1930)- Amin Babiker (1930–1931)
- Hamadnaallah Ahmed (1931–1933)
- Makki Osman Azreg (1933–1938)
- Bushra Abdelrahman Sagheer (1938–1944)
- Elhaj Awadallah (1944–1946)
- Mohamed Hussaein Sharfi (1946–1948)
- Mohamed Khalid Hassan (1948–1950)
- Ahmed Mohamed Ali Elsenjawi (1950–1952)
- Mohamed Aamir Bashir Forawi (1952–1962)
- Mahmoud Abusamra (1962–1963)
- Mahjoub Taha (1963–1965)
- Elsir Mohamed Ahmed (1965–1967)
- Mohamed Abdallah Galnder (1967–1969)
- Salih Mohamed Salih (1969–1971)
- Omer Ali Hassan (1971–1973)
- Ahmed Abdelrahman Elsheikh (1973–1975)
- Zainelabdeen Mohamed Ahmed Abdelgadir (1975–1977)
- Eltayeb Abdallah Mohamed Ali (1977-84/1988/1988-91/1994-96/1999)
- Omer Mohamed Saeed (1984–1988)
- Noureldin Elmubark (1988)
- Abdelmajeed Mansour Abdallah (1991–1994)
- Hassan Abdelgadir Hilal (1996–1999)
- Taha Ali Elbashir (1999–2002)
- Abdelrahman Sirelkhatim (2002–2005)
- Salaheldin Ahmed Mohamed Idris (2005–2010)
- Yusuf Ahmed Yusuf (2010)
- Elamin Elberair (2011–2013)
- Elhaj Ataaelmanan (2013)
- Ashraf Seed Ahmed (2014–2020)
- Hosham Hassan (2020-)
Captain history
- 1- Amin Babiker (1930)
- 2- Mohammed Hussein Sharfi (1930–1933)
- 3- Hassan Mabrok (1933–1935)
- 4- Abdelaal Hussein (1935–1938)
- 5- Hashim Deifallah (1938–1942)
- 6- Abdelkheir Salih (1942–1946) (1953-1956)
- 7- Salih Rajab (1946–1947)
- 8- Yusuf Abdelazeez (1947–1948)
- 9- Awad Ahmed (1948–1949)
- 10- Mohamed Talat Farid (1949–1950)
- 11- Elnour Balla (1950–1952)
- 12- Zaki Salih (1956–1957)
- 13- Siddiq Manzul (1957–1963)
- 14- Osman Babiker Subahi (1963–1964)
- 15- Eid Dudu Damor (1964–1966)
- 16- Ibrahim Yahia Elkawarty (1966–1969)
- 17- Amin Zaki (1969–1971)
- 18- Muhieldin Osman(1971–1974)
- 19- Nasr El-Din Abbas (1974–1977)
- 20- Ali Gagarin (1977–1979)
- 21- Ezzeldin Osman(1978–1981)
- 22- Gasim Ahmed Osman (1981)
- 23- Abdallah Musa (1982)
- 24- Salah Abdallah (1982)
- 25- Mustafa Elnager (1982–1984)
- 26- Mustafa Seimawi (1984–1986)
- 27- Tarig Ahmed Adam (1986–1993)
- 28- Mansour Bashir (1993–1996)
- 29- Jamal Mohamed Khamis (1996–1997)
- 30- Aakif Ataa (1998–1999) (2000)
- 31- Mustafa Komi (1999–2000)
- 32- Mohamed Hamdan (2000–2001)
- 33- Hamed Kamal (2001–2003)
- 34- Haitham Mustafa (2004–2012)
- 35- Omer Mohamed Bakhit (2013–2014)
- 36- Saif Eldin Ali Idris Farah (2015–2016)
- 37- Mudathir El Tayeb (2017–2018)
- 38- Mohamed Ahmed Bashir (2018–2019)
- 39- Abdellatif Saeed (2019–)
Honours
Managerial history
- Salih Rajab (1950-1955)
- Hashim Deifallah (1956-1957)
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Jiri Starosta (1958-1963)- El Hadi Seyam (1963-1964)
- Suleiman Faris (1964-1966)
- Osman Hussain Elsabi (1966-1968)
- Eid Dudu Damor (1968-1969)
- Ibrahim Yahia Elkawarty (1969-1972)
- Amin Zaki (1972-1974)
- Osman Babiker Subahi (1974-1976)
- Nasr El-Din Abbas (1977)(1982-1983)
- Shawgi Abdelaziz (1977-1980)
- Jafar Abdelrazig (1980-1983)
Nugueira (1983–1984)- Mohamed Hussein "Kassala" (1984-1986)
- Ahmed Abdalla (1986-1987) (1991-1992)
- Kamal Shaddad (1987)
- Meiroslav (1987–1991)
- Shaikh Idris Kabashi (1991-1993)
Anwar Jassam (1994) (2002)- Mohamed Hassan "Hassoun" (1994-1995)
- Hassan Elmasry (1995-1996) ѕhit player
- Fawzy Elmardi (1996)(1998–1999)(2000)(2016)(2020)
- Mustafa Elnager (1996–1998)
- Markeinos (1999-2000)
- Ahmed Adam "aafia"(2000-2001)
Mustafa Younis (2002-2003)
Branco Tucak (2003-2004)
Sofiane Elhaydosi (2004–2005)- Heron Ricardo Ferreira (2006–2008)
- Mohamed Muhieldin Eldiba (2008) (2017)
- José Dutra dos Santos (2009)
- Paulo Campos (2009–2010)(2014)
Milutin Sredojevic (2011)
Diego Garzitto (2012-2013)- Elfatih Elnager (2013) (2020)
- Salah Mohamed Adam (2013) (2019)
- Nasreddine Nabi (2014)
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Patrick Aussems (2015)- Nabil Kouki (2015)(2017)(2019)
- Jean-Michel Cavalli (2016)
- Tarek El-Ashry (2016)
Ilie Balaci (2016)- Denis Lavagne (2017)
- Khalid Bakhit (2017)
- Mohamedelfatih Hijazi (2017)
- Sergio Farias (2018)
- Mohamed Eltayeb (2018)
- Irad Zaafouri (2018) (2018-2019)
Lamine N'Diaye (2018)- Haitham Mustafa (2019)
- Hamada Sedki (2019-2020)
- Zoran Manojlović (2020-)
Regional titles
- Khartoum League: 16
- Champion: 1952-53, 1954-55, 1957-58, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1960-61, 1962-63, 1964-65, 1966-67, 1968-69, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1989-90, 1993-94
Performance in CAF competitions
- CAF Champions League: 34 appearances
- 1966 – Semi-finals
- 1967 – First round
- 1970 – Second round
- 1974 – Second round
- 1982 – Second round
- 1984 – First round
- 1985 – Second round
- 1987 – Finalist
- 1988 – Quarter-finals
- 1990 – Quarter-finals
- 1992 – Finalist
- 1995 – First round
- 1996 – First round
- 1997 – Second round
- 1999 – Second round
- 2000 – First round
- 2004 – Third round
- 2005 – First round
- 2006 – Second round
- 2007 – Semi-finals
- 2008 – Group stage (Top8)
- 2009 – Semi-finals
- 2010 – Second round
- 2011 – Semi-finals
- 2012 – Second round
- 2013 – First round
- 2014 – Group stage (Top8)
- 2015 – Semi-finals
- 2016 – First round
- 2017 –Group stage (Top16)
- 2018 - First round
- 2018–19 -First round
- 2019–20 - Group stage
- 2020-21 -
- CAF Confederation Cup: 6 appearances
- African Cup Winners' Cup : 4 appearances
- CAF Cup: 2 appearances
Performance in UAFA competitions
- Arab Club Champions Cup : 10 appearances
- Arab Cup Winners' Cup:2 appearances
Performance in Cecafa Clubs competitions
- CECAFA Clubs Cup:8 appearances
- 1985 – Group stage
- 1987 – Group stage
- 1988 – Third place
- 1989 – Group stage
- 1992 – Fourth place
- 1994 – Semi-finals (Withdrew)
- 1996 – Group stage
- 1999 – Quarter-finals
Motto
The motto for Al-Hilal is Allah – AlWatan – Al-Hilal. It is translated to English as "God – The Nation – Al-Hilal", which establishes a priority love list for Al-Hilal fans.
Current squad (2020–21)
- As of 26 January 2021
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
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